CORSHAM skipper Peter Dennett believes his side gave an overdue glimpse of their true potential as they stunned reigning Wadworth 6X West of England Premier League champions Bath by 42 runs.

Paul Robbins added an important 45 with the bat from number six before taking two Bath wickets to deliver the shock result.

Dennett said: “It was very pleasing and much needed.

“We haven’t been showing a great deal of form so far this season. In fact there has been a lot of bad form.

“Our batting wasn’t great again. We were about 50 or so short of what we were after so we knew we had to bowl and field well.

“We bowled to plan and with discipline and we also set some good fields.

“It shows what we can do when we stick to what we’re doing.’’ Electing to bat, Dennett's men lost early wickets and were 61-4 at one stage until a fifth-wicket partnership of 64 between Sam Collier (27) and Paul Robbins (45) steadied the ship.

Dennett chipped in with 31, as had opener Toby Davies earlier, as Corsham made it to 188-9 from their 50 overs.

Sam Mount took 3-35 for the home side, and Adam Kelly and Simon Marchant added a couple of victims each.

Bath’s reply started solidly with openers Alex Barrow (18) and Robin Lett (12), but James Amey (2-21), in only his third first team game, dismissed both those dangermen and Ashur Morrison (2-36) and Robbins (2-15) also made inroads.

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Bath number three Tom Rouse made 49, but only one other batsman reached double figures as they were dismissed for 146, Jon Parker wrapping up the tail with 3-11 in seven overs.

Dennett added: “We’ve got (new leaders) Frocester at home on Saturday so it’s probably out of the frying pan and into the fire a bit for us. They are probably the strongest side in the league so we’ll show the respect but we’ll be full of confidence.’’

Trowbridge skipper Alex Hart admitted his desire to bring out the ruthless side of his team was behind their declaration during Saturday’s Wiltshire Division victory over Nationwide House.

Hart, returning to action for the first time since Trowbridge met the Swindon side last season, declared his side’s innings on 305-4 after 43 overs to give them a good chance of bowling out their opponents.

House made a good fist of the reply, scoring 256-7 in their 50 overs, Jonathan Clarke scoring 92 for the visitors and Wesley Marshall taking 3-50.

Earlier, overseas star Marshall smashed yet another century, his 137th, including 12 fours and five sixes. Hart himself added 89.

The skipper said: “We’ve set ourselves a bit of a target this season and we want to be a bit more ruthless so we declared our innings so we could have a go at them.

“Their number three (Clarke) batted very well and they got off to a really good start, but it worked out for us.’ “It was the first time I’d picked a bat up since our games against Nationwide last season but it was a really good wicket and I got a second wind after about 10 overs.”